Ginny sent a bunch of material on William Ball from Ancestry.com. A lot of it is old fables that pop up from time to time but that have been thoroughly discredited by people who sought out original documentary sources. Every once in a while we get led down the garden path laid down by Joseph Ball II in the 18th century. He DID NOT know Hannah's last name--it probably wasn't Atherold. He DID NOT know where his ancestor immigrated from. Several people found William Balls in the general time period of the immigrant and hitched them onto his family tree willy-nilly. Before anyone accepts the Ancestry material uncritically, please read Peter Walne, "The English Ancestry of Colonel William Ball of Millenbeck" (VA Mag of History and Biography 67:399-405). It is the best account of what is actually known and not known about this family. ABSOLUTELY do not enter any of the Ancestry fiction into our NN website. Kathleen Much